Organizing with and advocating for people incarcerated in Texas county jails and their loved ones. Healthy communities make jails obsolete.
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Important national story today on the 'mental-health-crisis-to-prison-pipeline' in Texas
prismreports.org/2026/09/08/…
Texas Jail Project retweeted
Really grateful for our Governor-Elect's commitment to end the practice of private immigration detention for children. I hope she takes a similar approach to our public, state-run child detention system, TJJD, where kids face even worse conditions. #txlege
For families struggling to access care in the community and finding a cage instead, the upcoming Sunset hearings on HHSC are a crucial opportunity for change.
If you or a loved one has been repeatedly criminalized for behavioral health, consider testifying on 11/19 in Austin.
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Sign up for our newsletter at texasjailproject.org and stay tuned for how you can participate in the Sunset process.
#CareNotCages
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Texas Jail Project retweeted
A state investigation into a woman’s fatal injury in the Dallas County jail began only after @dallasnews learned of the case and I began asking questions. Advocates see a troubling trend across Texas of jails attempting to avoid deaths on their books.
dallasnews.com/news/courts/a…
TODAY IN Washington D.C. Texas Jail Project testified to Congress in first hearing about harmful local impacts of 287(g)
Watch the full hearing on Rep. Ramirez’s pages:
📷 X: teapawt.net/repdeliaramirez
📷 Facebook: facebook.com/repdeliaramirez
"We are witnessing constitutional protections erode in real time, due process weakened and entire communities targeted based simply on their perceived race and ethnicity.”
“What is most alarming is how blurred the lines have become between local police, sheriffs, and federal
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immigration agents. Families no longer know whether a routine interaction with local law enforcement could end with a loved one disappearing into ICE detention,” said Ms. Reynoso.
For more information see our press release here: texasjailproject.org/2026/05…
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